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This is related to the sub-human pet issues...but parents that discuss their children, complain about the kid, the kids issues, problems, personal things to another adult in front of the kid or even a full room. Total disrespect. Like the kid's invisible. I guess the kid is invisible.
As to consistency- that's got to be the toughest, especially for a single parent. I see my pal Amy, wiped out raising her two daughters, 3 and 6, she's way more tolerant that I would be (I think- what the hell do I know?!) She definitely has to pick her battles. She'd be the first to admit she's far from perfect, but I think she's a good mom.
Discipline isnt just the long arm of the law. Yes, there is putting the fear of god into them to make them not run into the street. Or zero tolerance for a kid smacking her mom. Then there are the everyday acts of control - giving kids those more subtlely consistent boundaries, but choices within bounds so they can figure out how best to behave. I've seen that work well with kids.
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